Rumour: Does a “glitch” in XBox Live indicate a change in currency?
By Jess Colwill on August 13, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Early in 2012, there were rumours that Microsoft was going to start using real money in XBox Live, as opposed to Microsoft Points, by the end of the year. Now in August, significantly closer to the end of said year, there still hasn’t been any announcement to that effect.
But what did happen last week was what Microsoft calls a totally unrelated glitch, whereby some avatar items showed up with local currency prices. The prices later reverted back to MS points.
Microsoft is claiming it was simply an “error in how the offers were configured in our services”, but the timing does seem suspect. Hopefully it is an indicator of the currency change coming sooner rather than later, or worse, never.
Source: TweakTown (thanks to PalZer0)
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To be honest, I’d rather have the XBL currency stay at MSP. Moving to real money is way too open to abuse from publishers (see Games on Demand pricing as an example of how we’re getting screwed over).
palzer0,
Yeah, the original Origin returns. If they do make the changes to real currency, they’d better at least make the prices fair. MSP was a “good” way of hiding the price gouging (requires actual calculation to figure out the value), if its possible for there to be a good way of doing so.
Microsoft points have been easy to work out – for us aussies it has always been MP x 1.65 to convert to cents ie. 100MP = 165Cents
Either way we are still going to be ripped off compared to price in the USA for example unless the priced dynamically change as the currency does. With our Dollar still around the 105c mark prices probably should be half what they are now and unless the government manages to change things we will stay ripped off.